It is a web page devoted to general aviation, with a special focus on women
in aviation, encouraging them to follow their dreams and reach for the sky.

"Seize the Sky" is the creation of Linda Dowdy. Linda was formerly chief flight
instructor of Knowlton Flight Instruction Services, located at Anoka airport, in
the Minneapolis metropolitan area. In the spring of 2006 she resigned from the
flight school in order to start her own company to do sim and GPS training.
The company, Sim Flite Minnesota, went
operational in July and is doing well. Linda has given more than 900 hours of
sim instruction and considers it the best and most cost-effective training
tool available to today's pilot.

Linda is a CFII, MEI, and ATP with more than 3,700 hours of flight experience,
including over 1,700 hours of multi-engine time. She has been flight instructing
for twelve years and has given more than 2,600 hours of dual instruction.

In 2003 Linda was awarded the designation of Master CFI by NAFI, the
National Association of Flight Instructions. To put it into perspective,
there are more than 81,000 flight instructors in the country, and less than
500 of them are Master CFIs. Linda is one of eight Master CFIs in the
state of Minnesota. The Master CFI designation must renewed every two years,
and Linda was again designated a Master CFI both in 2005 and most recently in March
of 2007.

During her 20 years of flying, Linda has
flown extensively over the U.S., Canada, and Alaska. Some of her experiences
are documented in "An Alaskan Journal", the story of her three-week flight
through western Canada and Alaska. "An Alaskan Journal" was originally
published in the November and December 1990 issues of the
Minnesota Flyer.